So she was not only the obnoxious queen bee of entitlement, but loud to boot? Yeah, I would have moved, too. I can't help but wonder about her dinner companions--can you imagine having to put up w/that, unless they were all of the same mind in that their poo doesn't stink.

In my experience Queen Bee Drama Llamas like her surround themselves with YesMen and Women. All her friends are probably meek little nodders who believe everything she says [like her, and I agree, apocryphal story about the airline and the luggage] and, deep down, wish that they could be so brave.

Another theory about her friends... people new to the area who are trying to make new friends. I have lots of experience with that because of the Military. It took me a couple times to learn, but those people who approach you, eagerly befriend you, and then tell you how this person doesn't like them because they are jealous and that person doesn't like them but they are backstabbers, those are people to avoid. There is a reason they are eager to be your friend and it is because they have run through everyone else around them and those folks won't tolerate them anymore.

In my experience Queen Bee Drama Llamas like her surround themselves with YesMen and Women. All her friends are probably meek little nodders who believe everything she says [like her, and I agree, apocryphal story about the airline and the luggage] and, deep down, wish that they could be so brave.

So she was not only the obnoxious queen bee of entitlement, but loud to boot? Yeah, I would have moved, too. I can't help but wonder about her dinner companions--can you imagine having to put up w/that, unless they were all of the same mind in that their poo doesn't stink.

My guess is they're undercover anthropologists, working on one hell of a thesis.

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Auntie V, I think you were extremely polite. Obviously asking her to tone down her voice would have been feeding her insanity. Instead, by discretely asking to be moved, you did save your server from some extremely bad retaliatory behavior.

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Another theory about her friends... people new to the area who are trying to make new friends. I have lots of experience with that because of the Military. It took me a couple times to learn, but those people who approach you, eagerly befriend you, and then tell you how this person doesn't like them because they are jealous and that person doesn't like them but they are backstabbers, those are people to avoid. There is a reason they are eager to be your friend and it is because they have run through everyone else around them and those folks won't tolerate them anymore.

I think the "You can't use an electronic nicotine inhaler because people might think you are smoking" rule is utterly ridiculous; but there is no reason to act like that. I would have asked to be moved, too.

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I think the "You can't use an electronic nicotine inhaler because people might think you are smoking" rule is utterly ridiculous; but there is no reason to act like that. I would have asked to be moved, too.

Hubby and I wondered why she didn't just leave when she was told that upon arrival. There are at least four other really good steakhouses (not to mention other very good restraunts) in the area, and I'm sure she could find one that would allow the electric cig.